The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.